The Register writes that “Internet providers have reacted with confusion at Gordon Brown's announcement that the Home Office will summon them to Westminster for anti-terror discussions. The PM unveiled wide-ranging measures in Parliament this week (full speech here). Slipped into the middle of the long list of jihad-squashing pledges was [...]
According to the Washington Post, “[s]everal leaders of Washington's technology community are creating an investment firm to back local entrepreneurs as they start up companies, the latest in a series of local organizations helping to turn promising innovations into businesses. LaunchBox Digital will provide up to $30,000 in seed money [...]
When and how does ICT interoperability drive innovation? This is the subject of a new paper on interoperability by the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society (the webcast of yesterday's launch event at the Reagan Building is now available). Co-authors Urs Gasser and John Palfrey have published a thoughtful [...]
Thomas Vinje, the longtime legal hitman for anti-Microsoft front groups, used the forum of a United Nations conference on Internet Governance to try to re-launch a baseless campaign against Microsoft today. He urged government regulators to start new competition cases against Microsoft becaus of the growing use of Microsoft’s .NET [...]
Internetnews.com reports that, according to research released this week by Computer Economics, “IT spending in 2008 will increase by only low single digit percentages and may be closer to flat. On the plus side, a solid majority – 66 percent – of organizations surveyed expect their IT budgets to increase [...]